The Central Milky Way from Lagoon to Pipe
Dark markings and colorful cloudsinhabit this stellar landscape.The deep and expansive view spans more than 30 full moons acrosscrowded star fields toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.Cataloged inthe early 20th century by astronomerE. E. Barnard,the obscuring interstellar dust clouds seen toward the rightinclude B59, B72, B77 and B78,part of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud complex a mere 450 light-years away.
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